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good morning so i actually put on some
makeup today
i don't know if you can notice um but
that's because i have someone from the
newspaper coming to do a
one-year follow-up interview because the
one-year anniversary of laura farms is
coming up
so soon april 23rd is the day that i
created my youtube channel
um so i mean i'll probably do like a
one-year anniversary video but
thanks so much for everyone who's made
this journey so great so far
that's true okay i'm just gonna start
fake filming a video
yeah okay so this is me fake filming a
video for cheyenne at the newspaper
right here we have our whole planter
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setup
first job of today since it is way too
cold than we need to spray
is flagging our seed corn fields so we
have boundaries
and isolation that we can't plant in and
before we can get out here and plant we
got to make sure we know where those are
so dad's got our little wheel out there
and i my job is flag holder i could use
a hot coffee
keep up the good work dad love to see
that
good job okay
hi dad hi laura as we drive
to the other end of the field i was
wondering if you would help me explain
what it means to be a seed corn grower
yeah i can do that are you going to go
across the rows
no i'll explain it while we bounce all
the way down across
the roads in a field okay what does it
mean or what does it take to be a seed
corn grower what does it mean to be a
seed corn grower
for someone who has no idea about
anything okay
lots of more work pain effort
they tell you what to do mostly
uh who um the company that you're
growing for
okay okay um so it means you grow the
seed that another person is going to
plant right
correct we're we are growing the
production that we're growing this year
uh corn farmers will plant
next year so it's exactly what it says
being a seed corn
farmer means you are growing corn
that'll be used as seed
correct and what we're doing is we're
creating hybrids we're taking two
genetics of two different plants and
they will pollinate
this year creating a hybrid which
uh will have great resistance to
um weeds and insects and yield quite a
bit more and yield more
by taking less nutrients and less water
so we've got really great genetic
package out here that were
that we're building putting together for
farmers next year so what you're doing
is you take two types of plants
they're not actually male and female but
we just
call them male and female to distinguish
between the two
yes i should probably buckle up too
so you take two plants you just say male
and female even though
they don't actually have any uh
specifically male or female reproductive
parts and you're combining
sorry i so badly if we were in another
vehicle
no never mind driving under a sprayer
yeah it's everyone's dream
yeah i know ken block has done it uh
anyways so
you take the best of both of those parts
genetics so you take the strength
from one plant and you take the good
yields from another plant
and you mix them together that's correct
that's what we're doing so anyway so
today
as we're flagging out boundaries for
fields what we're doing
is the genetics need a certain amount of
isolation from different types of other
corn plants and other things are being
planted around
we should be spraying right now they're
spraying right now yeah i know it never
never watch the neighbors when they're
when they're doing work yeah um
you're doing such a great job laura
explaining the question that you asked
to me
i just wanted your input yeah do you
want to take over my job well let me
finish i get
i get distracted um painful and
cumbersome
there's just a lot more work involved
you need to do
um you need to be very very particular
uh because we want to have
a very um pure product
at the end of the day so um there's
there's lots more people
kind of helping you and looking over
your shoulder uh to make sure we're
getting it all right because what we're
doing here is
somewhat complicated but um it's worth
it
in the end uh there is a premium payment
that we get for doing
all of this extra work in pain so it's a
nice little
niche market niche for um
a grower the size that i am so
having all the equipment for regular
corn farming it's just like
corn farming with steroids but you don't
need that much more equipment to do it
uh not really a little bit but um but
that's okay i
i like equipment so i don't mind
machinery it's like a niche market
without like
growing hemp where you would need all
new equipment that's a great point yeah
that's a great point so
a couple years ago just stepped out of
my comfort zone
trying something new and i've done it
every year since and i will continue to
do it
every year because it's just it's
something a little bit different and
unique and
something that i can specialize on and
focus in so it's worked
out great for the seed company and it's
been great for us so
yeah there you go i figured i'd explain
what cd chrome production actually is
because
what we're doing today just setting our
flags really isn't that exciting
nice quote this is who we grow seed for
right here
it's really fun watching dad from the
pickup truck
because i imagine this is what dad and
grandpa feel like
watching me do field work it's so fun
so if you remember we got this planner
put in the shop
this is the planner that we call our box
planner um it's the planet that we use
primarily
uh we have two other planners though
we're bringing
our second nicest one in the shop now
uh this is the center fill planter or we
also call it the soybean planter
because that's the one that we most
often use soybeans for
but we're going to pull this in the shop
and so we can start going through it
and here is the center fill planter in
the shop
so as you can see the box planter has
those individual little seed boxes
whereas on this planter
you just put all the seed right into
this big tank here
and then it goes out onto all those
little ones so you only have to fill one
spot
instead of 16 spots
the last job for today is going to be
filling up the sprayer
and then dad can go out now that the
wind just kind of calmed down a little
bit dad go out and spray
while i go home and prepare myself for
the next big day of work
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okay before i sign off on the end of
this video i went to the post office
clearly and i wanted to show you guys
some stickers
that we got for our sticker bench which
is quickly filling up
um this one came from i'm not sure
a lot of people don't put their names on
these but
here are the stickers
we go this one also uh
no name but from someone in florida a
little dancing cow
um this one came from a rob
um oh from somewhere in canada
we got all sorts oh my goodness
some more canada stickers harley
davidson
death wish coffee which i highly
recommend
okay uh next this is
from oh my goodness i don't
know people just don't put their names
on things with a letter
um okay no stickers not one but a nice
letter
this one came from
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massachusetts very nice
looks like he sets up stage equipment
very cool say hi to grant
remind him you need a truck already
working on that
and then this one okay it came from the
gage county sheriff's office
which is in beatrice and i got some
deputy stickers and they sent me this
sweet note
they like watching my channel at the
station and that just like
that makes me so happy so i'm gonna put
these stickers
put these stickers on the bench and it
should be full really soon
um so thank you guys so much for sending
me stickers put on this
thank you for watching to the end of the
video uh i'll see you a little bit